Today's letters: Too many lawyers

Published: Sunday, July 8, 2012 at 4:30 a.m.

Last Modified: Friday, July 6, 2012 at 6:18 p.m.

To the editor: It is said that the U.S. has the most lawyers per capita than any country in the world, and that, as either a cause or effect, we are the most litigious of them all.

I maintain that lawyers making law, rules and regulations comports to be an extraordinary conflict of interest. Big government, massive and complex laws purposely expanded, make work for the lawyer tribe.

It is a fact that 82 percent of the three branches of government are peopled by lawyers. To my mind this explains why we have more than 9,000 pages in the tax code and why recent laws are so long and complex that no one, save lawyers, knows or understands what is in them.

We need to send a majority of these parasitic members of Congress and the administration back to the private sector, to the real world that they have screwed up.

We need more diversity of experience in government; that is, businessmen, farmers, realtors, engineers, scientists, tradesmen, et al., to write laws that are short, clear, only as needed, and to repeal those that donít meet these criteria.

Bush amnesia

To the editor: During the past few months, I have read from several writers how terrible President Barack Obama is. How everything wrong with our country is his fault. That the economic condition of our country directly results from his policies. In my 70 years on this Earth in this country, I have never seen a president so hated.

The president took over a horrible mess when he came into office. The country had been horribly wounded by the 9/11 attack. Then-President George W. Bush, in his first months in office, was away most of the time at his ranch in Crawford, Texas. That administration paid no heed to the daily White House briefings that said an attack was imminent.

A war was started upon Iraq, justified by lies from that regime. Remember the billions of dollars that disappeared from a truck in Iraq? No one knew where it went!

<p>To the editor: It is said that the U.S. has the most lawyers per capita than any country in the world, and that, as either a cause or effect, we are the most litigious of them all.</p><p>I maintain that lawyers making law, rules and regulations comports to be an extraordinary conflict of interest. Big government, massive and complex laws purposely expanded, make work for the lawyer tribe.</p><p>It is a fact that 82 percent of the three branches of government are peopled by lawyers. To my mind this explains why we have more than 9,000 pages in the tax code and why recent laws are so long and complex that no one, save lawyers, knows or understands what is in them.</p><p>We need to send a majority of these parasitic members of Congress and the administration back to the private sector, to the real world that they have screwed up.</p><p>We need more diversity of experience in government; that is, businessmen, farmers, realtors, engineers, scientists, tradesmen, et al., to write laws that are short, clear, only as needed, and to repeal those that don’t meet these criteria.</p><p>We’re fortunate to have candidates fitting the non-lawyer criterion in Mitt Romney, Pat McCrory and Mark Meadows.</p><p><em>Jerome (Jack) Lorenz</em></p><p><em>Mills River</em></p><h3>Bush amnesia</h3>
<p>To the editor: During the past few months, I have read from several writers how terrible President Barack Obama is. How everything wrong with our country is his fault. That the economic condition of our country directly results from his policies. In my 70 years on this Earth in this country, I have never seen a president so hated.</p><p>The president took over a horrible mess when he came into office. The country had been horribly wounded by the 9/11 attack. Then-President George W. Bush, in his first months in office, was away most of the time at his ranch in Crawford, Texas. That administration paid no heed to the daily White House briefings that said an attack was imminent.</p><p>A war was started upon Iraq, justified by lies from that regime. Remember the billions of dollars that disappeared from a truck in Iraq? No one knew where it went!</p><p>Two unfunded wars destroyed our budget surplus achieved by the Clinton administration and elevated our indebtedness to embarrassing and dangerous levels.</p><p>The largest embassy in the world was built in Iraq at a cost of $560 million!</p><p>Your amnesia is something!</p><p>I can’t forget that Bush group.</p><p><em>Dennis P. Berman</em></p><p><em>Hendersonville</em></p><h3>Warm welcome</h3>
<p>To the editor: There is a great event coming up in Asheville very shortly that voters shouldn’t miss.</p><p>Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush will be the guest of our Republican candidate for North Carolina governor, Mayor Pat McCrory, at a women’s brunch at the Doubletree Hotel in Asheville at 10 a.m. July 19.</p><p>Tickets to the brunch are a donation to the McCrory campaign of $35, so let’s give Jeb Bush a warm welcome and take another step toward electing Pat McCrory governor!</p><p>To reserve tickets or ask questions, please email me at robertdanos@gmail.com or call 919-424-7128.</p><p><em>Robert Danos</em></p><p><em>Henderson County coordinator,</p><p>McCrory for Governor</p>